Development Practices • Aug 28, 2025 Disposable vs. Durable Code: You Can’t Build Rome with Sticky Notes There’s a time for code that's quick, dirty, utterly disposable. Then there’s durable code you build for the long haul.
C# • Aug 27, 2025 Switch Statement Guide for C# C# has multiple different syntaxes for switch statements and expressions. Here is what they are and how to use them.
AI for Developers • Aug 26, 2025 Building an AI Agent with LangGraph At a recent event, I teamed up with a co-worker to build a simple AI-powered news aggregation agent using LangGraph.
TypeScript • Aug 25, 2025 Globally Manage Toast Notifications with Tanstack Query Tanstack Query is the modern go-to library for handling async data fetching and state management, and it's been widely adopted at Atomic.
Growing as Makers • Aug 24, 2025 Embrace Uncertainty: Tips for New Atoms Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out a way to remain grounded throughout your journey of being new Atoms.
The Software Life • Aug 23, 2025 Novelty is the Secret Ingredient to Product Success, Thriving Teams, and Personal Happiness Novelty isn’t just exciting — it's beneficial. In product development, team leadership, and even in my personal life, novelty drives success.
Design Strategy • Aug 22, 2025 Simplicity in Design Thinking, Part 4: Your Competitive Landscape Use this competitive landscape activity to align on your brand’s current and future position in the market and spark strategic discussion.
AI for Developers • Aug 21, 2025 Distributed AI Agents: A Thought Experiment in Self-Evolving Business Systems Explore how distributed AI agent systems solve the context window problem by creating specialized agents that coordinate like expert teams.
AI for Developers • Aug 20, 2025 A Pragmatic Look at Web Scraping, Open Source, and LLM-Assisted Development My Mrln project serves as an example of a few ethical topics related to creators, AI labs, and LLM-assisted development.
Exploratory Testing • Aug 19, 2025 Onboarding Newbie Testers: Turn Interns into App Quality Champions What if instead of seasoned professionals, you have newbie testers? What if they’re college interns, new hires, or even friends and family?
Development Practices • Aug 18, 2025 Keep a Developer Log (Your Future Self Will Thank You) I recently started keeping a daily developer log, and it has become one of the most valuable habits in my development workflow.
Growing as Makers • Aug 17, 2025 What Are You Looking At? The Power of Awareness The Covid-19 pandemic taught me the power of awareness to change your understanding. I apply that lesson to custom software consulting.